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APPLICATION 311,215 ran. 6. 1905. 923,692.

Patented June 1, 1909.

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WILFRED I. OIIMER, OF DAYTON, OIIIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE RECORDING AND COMPUTING MACHINES COMPANY, OF DAYTON, OI-IIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

FARE REGISTER AND RECORDER.

Original application filed. December 27, 1904, Serial No. 238,396.

ful Improvements in Fare Registers and Recorders, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to fare registers and recorders, the application being a division of an application filed by me December 27, 190%,Se1uNo. 238,396. In the said prior application I have set forth a machine comprising a group of printing counters actuated by the registering mechanism of the machine to give the detail totals of different kinds or classes of fare, and a printing wheel cooperating with said printing counter to print at each station a record of the fares collected between stations, the printing counters being set to zero after the printing of each record, and the operation of setting said counters to Zero also serving to actuate the printing wheel to advance it one step, so as to print the name of the next station on the next record.

My present invention has for its object to combine with these printing counters and printing wheel an indicator which is operatively connected with the printing wheel so as to move in unison therewith and indicate the name of the next station, which name the printing wheel is in position to print upon the record, provision being made of means for simultaneously resetting to zero the printing counters and at the same time shifting the printing wheel and indicator.

In its preferred form, the invention includes within its scope mechanism for auto matically reversing the direction of movement of the station printi wheel and station indicator after a predetermined number of actuations thereof, so that in case the route to be traveled. is one traversed alternately in opposite directions, the printing wheel and indicator will be automatically actuated to correspond with the actual order in which the stations are encountered.

To these and other ends my invention consists in certain novel features which I will now proceed to describe, and will then particularly point out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a front elevation of a fare register and re- Speeifieation of Letters Patent.

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Divided and this application filed February 6,

Serial No. 244,285.

corder embodying my invention in one form, portions of the outer casing being broken away to show the internal construction; Fig. 2 is a side elevation, with the casing removed, of so much of the mechanism as is necessary to an understanding of my present invention; Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail plan section of a portion of the actuating and reversing mechanism Fig. I is an enlarged detail view of the actuating mechanism shown in Fig. 2, viewed from the same direction, with the resetting key shown in position in section; Fig. 5 is a detail sectional view, taken on the line a; a; of Fig. 3 and looking in the direction of the arrows, the same being on a somewhat reduced scale Fig. 6 is a detail view of a portion of Fig. 5 3 and Fig. 7 is a detail view of the detent cooperating with the station printing wheel.

In the said drawings, 1 indicates a suitable inclosing casing, within which is mounted a frame or support 2, carrying the various mechanisms.

3 indicates a shaft supported in suitable bearings a on the frame or support 2, on which shaft are mounted a plurality of print ing counters 5, each counter composed of number printingwheels and relating to a specific class or kind of fare, each counter being operated by suitable selective and actuating mechanism so as to print a record of the total number of fares of that class when such rec ord is taken therefrom by means of a suitable printing mechanism. These counters are so connected with the shaft as to move freely thereon when actuated by the registering mechanism during the registering of the fares, while rotation. of the shaft in the proper direction will reset all of the counters thereon to Zero, any of the well known constructions for this purpose being employed. I prefer to effect this rotation of the shaft 3 by means of a suitable key, which may be applied to the end of the shaft through an aperture in the casing, the shaft being provided with a pin or projection 6, and the barrel of the key, shown in section at 7 in Fig. 4, hav ing a slot 8 to engage the pin 6.

The station printing wheel is indicated at 9, the same being a wheel having printing characters thereon corresponding to the designations and arranged in the order of the stations, illustrated in the present instance as type letters adapted to print upon the record the names of the stations of the parwheel 9 a ratchet wheel ticular line on which the register is used. Secured on the shaft 3 near its left hand end is a crank arm 10, provided with an outwardly extending pin 11.

12 indicates a vibrating lever, comprising a central hub or sleeve 13, by means of which itis pivoted on a stud 14, mounted on a supporting arm 15 forming a part of one of the bearings 4. One end of this lever is formed into a cam yoke 16, in which the pin 11 travels, and by contact with the inner wall of which said pin, during each complete rotation of the shaft 3, vibrates the lever 12 from the position shown in full lines in Fig. 4 to the position shown in dotted lines in said figure, and then back to its original position, shown in full lines. The opening in said cam yoke is sufficiently large to permit the lever 12 to vibrate in the manner described, and at the same time permit the shaft 3 to be extended through the cam yoke in order to receive the operating key. As shown, the cam yoke has opposite slots 17 and 18, with which the pin 11 successively engages during the downward and upward movement of the cam yoke respectively, and intermediate cam contact surfaces 19, with which said pin contacts during certain portions of its travel. The lever 12, has on the other side of its pivotal axis from the cam yoke, a portion 20, which is slotted, as shown at 21, to receive a pin 22, carried by a pawl-supporting arm 23. This pawl-supporting arm is located on the inner side of the support 15 on which the lever 12 is mounted, and is hung loosely upon the shaft 3 at its forward end, as indicated at 24. Upon the inner face of the pawl-supporting arm 23 there is mounted a bearing stud 25, on which is pivotally mounted a pawl 26, which is a double pawl'having two engaging arms 27 and 28, and another arm 29, extending in the opposite direction from the pivot stud 25, and having its extremity formed into oppositely inclined or beveled contact surfaces 30 and. Y31, as shown in Fig. 5. The pawl-supporting arm 23 also carries a spring detent 32, mounted to slide in a housing 33 011 the arm 25 and backed by a spring 34 in said housing. The projecting end of this pin 32, which cooperates with the arm 29 of the pawl 26, has double incline or bevel, the surfaces of which are indicated. by the reference numerals 35 and 36, said detent lying in the path of the end of the arm 29. There is connected to or formed on the hub of the station printing 37, the teeth of which are preferably of equal inclination to the ra dius, and with these teeth either one of the pawl arms 27 or 28 may be brought into engagement. There is also secured to or formed on the hub of the wheel 9 a cam disk 38, having a cam projection 39, in the path of which lies an arm 40, connected to the its end also formed into a I I pawl 26 so as to move in unison therewith. l

The wheel 9 is also provided with a detent ratchet wheel 41, engaged by a detent pawl 42 controlled by a spring 43, as shown more particularly in Fig. 7. This detent mechanism serves to hold the station printing wheel 9 in any position to which it may be moved by its actuating mechanism, and to prevent accidental displacement of said wheel.

By reason of the mechanism just described, each time the shaft 3 is rotated to reset to zero the printing counters controlled thereby, a complete vibration will be imparted to the lever 12, and from it through the pin 22 to the pawl-supporting arm 23.

Assuming that the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 5, the pawl arm 27 being in engagement with the ratchet wheel 37 the first or downward movement of the pawl-supporting arm will cause the pawl to rotate the ratchet wheel, advancing it one step, and moving the name of the next station into printing position. During the return or up ward movement of the pawl-supporting arm, the pawl arm 27 will slip over the teeth of the ratchet wheel 37, the detent 32 yielding sufficiently to permit this, and returning the pawl arm 27 to proper engaging position with the teeth of the ratchet wheel 37, in which position the spring of said detent holds said pawl arm during its operative or downward strokes. The parts are so constructed and arranged that the arm 29 of the pawl does I not swing past the central line of the detent during these operations, and the bearing surface 35 of the detent remains in contact with the bearing surface 30 of the arm 29 of the pawl during one complete revolution of the printing wheel 9. At the end of the first half of the trip, the conductor having reset the printing counters on the shaft 3 at each station, station printing wheel 9 will have made one complete revolution, or so much of a revolution as is necessary to print successively the names of all the stations. The cam projection 39 then comes into contact with the arm 40, and rocks said arm and the pawl 26 upon their common pivot to an extent such as to cause the arm 29 of said pawl to pass l the center line of the detent 32, bringing the surface 36 of said detent into contact with the surface 31 of the arm 29, and throwing the pawl arm 28 into engagement with the ratchet wheel 37, at the same time throwing the pawl arm 27 out of engagement with said wheel. The further vibrations of the lever 12 and pawl-supporting arm 23 will cause the ratchet wheel 37 and station printing wheel 9 to rotate in a direction opposite to that in which they rotated during the first half of the trip, so that the station names will be printed in the reverse order during the return portion I of the trip. Of course, it will be understood that this reversing mechanism may be dispensed with where the register is used in connection with a route over which the travel is not reversed, as on a belt or circuit line.

The mechanism just described is also employed to operate a station indicator as well as a station printing wheel, either alone or in connection with a station printing wheel, and, in Figs. 1 and 2, I have illustrated a construction in which a station indicating wheel 44 is mounted upon brackets 45, connected to an upward extension of the frame 2. This station indicating wheel is operated by a lever 16, which is connected by a link 47 with the member 20 of the lever 12, so as to move in unison therewith. T he lever 46 corresponds in function to the member 20 of the lever 12, and, through a mechanism similar to that just described, imparts to the station indicating wheel 44. the same intermittent rotary motion, reversed at fixed intervals, which is imparted to the station printing wheel 9. T he station indicator has placed thereon the names or designating characters of the several stations in their proper order, that one of the same which is in proper position being visible through an opening 48 in the casing 1. It will thus be seen that the resetting of the printing counters to zero not only advances the station printing wheel one step, but also advances the station indicator one step, so that the act of the conductor in resetting the printing counters at each station after taking a record therefrom operates the station indicatorso as to cause it to indicate the next station.

It is obvious that various modifications in the construction may be made without departing from the principle of my invention. F or instance, the station printing wheel may be omitted under certain circumstances, in which case the resetting to Zero of the printing counter will actuate the indicator in the manner already described, reversing it automatically at the end of the run.

Other modifications will readily occur to those skilled in the art, and I therefore do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the precise details of construction hereinbefore described and shown in the accompanying drawings.

I make no claim in the present application to the combination of station printing wheel, the fare printing counters, and the mechanism whereby the resetting to Zero of the printing counters advances the station printing wheel and reverses its direction of rotation after a predetermined number of actual tions, as the same is claimed in my prior application No. 238,396, hereinbefore referred to, of which this is a division.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a machine of the character described, fare printing counters, a printing wheel, an indicator operatively connected with the printing wheel to move in unison therewith, and means for simultaneously resetting to zero the printing counters and advancing one step tee printing wheel and indicator, said means comprising mechanism for reversing the direction of movement of the printing wheel and indicator after a predetermined number of actuations thereof, substantially as described.

2. In a machine of the character described, station record printing wheels comprising printing counters and a station printing wheel, a station indicator operatively connected with the station printing wheel to move in unison therewith, and means for simultaneously resetting to zero the printing counters and advancing one step the station printing wheel and station indicator, said means comprising mechanism for reversing the direction of movement of the station printing wheel and station indicator after a predetermined number of actuations thereof, substantially as described.

3. In a machine of the character described, fare printing counters, an indicator, and means for simultaneously resetting to zero the printing counters and advancing one step the indicator, in combination with means for reversing the direction of movement of the indicator after a predetermined number of actuations thereof, substantially as described.

4. In a machine of the character described, printing counters for producing a station record, a station indicator, and means for simultaneously resetting to Zero the printing counters and advancing the station indicator one step, in combination with means for reversing the direction of motion of the station indicator after a predetermined number of actuations thereof, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

IVILFRED I. OHMER.

Witnesses GUSTAV Bnonnn, Jr, WM. H. KIMMEL. 

